Double mail-bag deliverer.



. )PATENTED MAY 26, 1908. A. A. .D0UeLAss JR. & D. F. DOUGLASS.

DOUBLE MAIL BAG DELIVERER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20. 1908.

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NCTON n L UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

ARCHIBALD A. DOUGLASS, JR, AND DANIEL F. DOUGLASS, OF RUBY, SOUTH CAROLINA,

ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-FOURTH TO D. H. Mo- GREGOR, OF RUBY, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND ONE-FOURTH TO DONALD S. MATHESON,

OF CHERAW, SOUTH CAROLINA.

DOUBLE MAIL-BAG DELIVERER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Application filed February 20, 1908. Serial No. 416,849.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARCHIBALD A. DOUG- LASS, Jr., and DANIEL F. DOUGLASS, citizens of the United States, residing at Ruby, in the county of Chesterfield and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and useful Double Mail-B ag Deliverer; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to improvements in a mail bag deliverer and receiver and has for its object to provide a simple, efficient and durable device of this character having means for automatically delivering a bag of mail to a moving train, and another to the station at the same time.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In thedrawings Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view taken through the device and a portion of a mail car, showing the position of the car just as it has delivered and received the respective bags of mail, the initial position of said bags being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of that portion of the device which travels with the car. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the underside of the car. Fig. 4 isa perspective view of the stationary part of the devlce.

Referring to the drawings 1 designates a support which is mounted upon a lever 2 which is pivotally connected with a car, as at 3, and which is provided with a receptacle 4. v The lower end of the lever 2 operates in a slot 5 of the reci rocating member. The lever 2 is also provic ed with a spring 7 which is connected therewith and to a portion of the car, as at 8. This spring holds the lever 2 in its normal position, as will be clearly understood. The reci rocating member 6 is provided on an end wit a roller 9 which when it reaches a station on the road engages a stationary projection 10 which forces said reciprocating member inwardly thereby causing it to tilt the lever 2 which causes the bag of mail to be thrust or thrown from its support 1 into the stationary receptacle 11. The upper portion of the lever2 is provided with a horizontal portion 12 in the end of which is mounted a bow-shaped striker 13. It will be seen that when the lever 2 is tilted the striker 13 engages a down wardly projecting arm 14 of a pivoted stationary su port 15. As this arm is engaged by the stri or 13 it will be seen that the support 15 will tilt, thereby causing the mail bag to slide off of the same and land in receptacle 4 of the moving mail car, just as the bag a is thrown from its support 1 into the receptacle 11. The pivoted support 15 is held in its normal position by means of a spring 16 which is connected with its rear portion 17 and with the stationary receptacle 11.

It will be seen that my invention is capable of automatically throwing and receiving a bag of mail at the same time and that it is especially adapted to the railway mail service and that it will save time and labor and at the same time eliminate the risk and uncertainty incidental to transferring mail to and from a moving train.

What is claimed is,

1. A device of the class described, having a lever adapted to deliver one bag of mail and a catcher mounted on said lever adapted to receive another simultaneously.

'2. A device of the class described, com prising a railway mail car, a lever pivotally mounted thereon, a reciprocating member for actuating said lever, said lever being capable of delivering one bag of mail, and receiving another one, simultaneously.

3. A device of the class described, comprising a lever having a mail bag support, and a mail bag receiver, saidlever being capable of throwing one bag off and one on a moving train simultaneously. 1. The combination with a moving train, having a tiltable mail bag support and catcher of a stationary tiltable mail-bag support, and means for causing said supports to tilt simultaneously.

5. The combination with a railway mailcar, having a tiltable lever, provided with a mail-bag support, of a stationary tiltable mail-bag support stationed adjacent the road of said car, a reciprocating member connected with said lever, and adapted to cause both supports to tilt simultaneously.

6. The combination with a railway mail car, having a tiltable mail-bag support and catcher, of a tiltable stationary mail bag support, stationed on the route of said car, means for causing both supports to tilt simultaneously, and means for restoring them to their normal positions.

7. A device of the class described having a vertically disposed lever, a mail bag support mounted on said lever, said lever having a horizontal portion provided with a striker, said striker being capable of striking and tilting a stationary mail-bag support, when said first named mail-bag support is tilted.

8. A device of the class described having a lever, a mail bag support mounted on said lever, a reciprocating member having a slot adapted to engage the lower end of said lever for actuating the same, said lever having means for tilting a second mail bag support.

9. The combination with 'a moving car havin a lever a mail ba su )ort mounted on said lever, of a stationary tiltable mail bag support, said lever having means for tilting both supports simultaneously.

10. The combination of a railway mail car having a lever pivotally mounted therein, said lever having a mail bag support and catcher, and means for actuating said lever.

11. A device of the class described comprising a pivotally mounted lever, said lever having a mail bag support and catcher, a reciprocating member, having a slot and adapted to engage the lower end of said lever for actuating the same, substantially as described.

v 12. A device of the class described com prising a lever, said lever having a mail bag support and catcher, a reciprocating member having a slot adapted to engage the lower end of said lever for actuating the same, said reciprocating member having a roller mounted in the end thereof.

are thrown one in an opposite direction from 1 the other.

15. A device of the class described comprising a lever pivotally mounted to a car, said lever having a mail bag support and re ceiver, and a spring adapted to hold said lever in vertical position.

16. The combination of a moving vehicle having a vertically disposed lever mounted thereon, said lever being provided with a mail bag support, a reciprocating member having a slot adapted to engage the lower end of said lever, and a spring for holding said lever and reciprocating member in their normal position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARCHIBALD A. DOUGLASS, JR. DANIEL F. DOUGLASS.

Witnesses ROBERT D. MoCRmcH'r, DOUGLASS E. CLARKE] 

